Staff
Yves Auriol, Fencing Master, Head Coach
Jacques Lacour, Fencing Master
Ed Richards, Fencing Master, Coach
Marion Tonchev
Eli M. Delgado Jr., Foil, Epee, Sabre Coach
Colleen Brown, Manager
Yves Auriol, Fencing Master and Head Coach
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A native of France, Maitre Yves Auriol earned his fencing master’s degree from the Institute National du Sport in Paris. Established as one of the world’s top fencing instructors, he with his brother Leon, also a fencing master, formed the Salle Auriol Fencing Club in Seattle. In addition, he was the fencing coach at Portland State University from 1975 until 1985.
Maitre Auriol was the head coach of the men’s and women’s fencing team at the University of Notre Dame from 1985-2003. Over the course of 17 seasons, Maitre Auriol’s Notre Dame fencers combined to win 54 All-America honors, six U.S. National Champions and five Academic All-American awards. Coach Auriol was honored with the U.S. National Fencing Coach of the Year from the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association in 2002 and the NCAA Coach of the Year in 2001.
A four-time U.S. Olympic team coach, Maitre Auriol coached the U.S teams in Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992 (and Moscow 1980).
Maitre Auriol moved to Las Vegas in 2003. He was inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame, at the Summer National Championships in Miami 2007 and most recently has coached his students to 5 U.S. National Championships, 4 Pacific Coast Section Championship titles, 11 World Cup competitors and 2 World Championship competitors. The Academy is indeed fortunate to have Maitre Auriol, one of the most successful and respected coaches in the Olympic sport of fencing as our Head Coach and Director of Fencing.
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Jacques Lacour, Fencing Master and Coach
Ed Richards, Fencing Master and Coach
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Maestro Ed Richards, fencing master, U.S. rated referee and national coach was a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic Team. He was also a 2-time U.S. National Champion in foil 1962 and 1963. Maestro Richards, a U.S. National coach and Junior World team coach has coached numerous national champions and brings a tremendous wealth of experience to the Academy. He received the USFA Fencing Officials’ Commission award and conducts referee clinics as well as his popular “Fencing Focus’ seminars. He was inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Marion Tonchev
Eli M. Delgado Jr., Foil, Epee, Sabre Coach
Eli Delgado began fencing in 1991 and became a Certified Fencing Instructor in 1997 with the USFCA. He currently holds diplomas as Moniteur D’Escrime in Foil and Epee. Coach Delgado is the 1999 Armed Forces Champion in Epee. In 2003 he took the gold at the Duel in the Desert Veteran Men’s Epee; gold at the North American Cup in Arlington; and was a finalist in the North American Cup in Pittsburgh. In 2007 Coach Delgado was a bronze medalist at the USFA National Championships in Veteran Men’s Epee. On the state level, he has won five gold, two silver, and five bronze medals in Foil, Epee, and Sabre. More recently, Coach Delgado was a member of the 2010, gold medal Senior Men’s Epee team at the Pacific Coast Championships held in Las Vegas.
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